Excess supplies are helping to hold down prices, so natural gas is becoming more attractive for many users.
Excess supplies are helping to hold down prices, so natural gas is becoming more attractive for many users.
The S&P 500 stock index has returned 10.2% annually during the past three years and the Barclays Capital Aggregate bond index only returned 5.7%.
Investors have been pouring into stocks that produce dividend payments. Reliable performers reward shareholders with quarterly dividend checks year after year.
Many dividend companies are mature businesses with a rich cash flow.
A growing number of flexible mutual funds advocate a different strategy—selling stocks and shifting to cash when conditions warrant.
For years, many financial advisors gave clients standard advice: Buy a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds and hold it through up and down markets.
Instead of a buy-and-hold approach, a growing number of flexible mutual funds sell stocks and shift to cash when conditions look hazardous.
By weighing stocks on basic financial measures, fundamental funds are beating traditional benchmarks.
In recent months, investors have been eagerly pursuing shares of Facebook, Groupon, and other hot technology companies.